"Whoever is against mujahideen is against Islam and they are the enemies of this country," former fighter Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (*), now an influential lawmaker, told the crowd of demonstrators. ... Youths later marched through the streets of the city, shouting "Death to the enemies of Afghanistan!" and "Death to America!".
(*) Abdul Rasul Sayyaf: According to the Wikipedia article: Abdul allegedly arranged the interview in which Ahmad Massoud was assassinated.
According to Global Security: Sayyaf, a Wahabi Muslim, had a close relationship with Osama bin Laden during the jihad against the Soviets.
BBC offers a photo and a personal account, from 2001: I ventured west to the district of Afshar, where block after block of shattered housing resembles the ruins of an ancient civilisation. In 1993, it was the site of repeated human butchery during fighting between a faction that adheres to the Shi'ite Muslim faith and followers of a Saudi backed Mujahideen leader, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. Amnesty International reported that Sayyaf's forces rampaged through Afshar, murdering, raping and burning homes. Now Sayyaf's forces are back in Kabul, a key component of the Northern Alliance army.
In 2004, Foreign Affairs published Kathy Gannon's Afghanistan Unbound: In 1994, bitter fighting between competing warlords raged throughout Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. It was a time marked by endless attacks, many of them on civilians. I saw one young boy raise his hand to catch a ball, only to have it sliced off at the wrist by a rocket. A 13-year-old girl, running home to retrieve blankets and clothes left behind by her fleeing family, stepped on a land mine, which exploded and blew off the bottom of her leg. All told, 50,000 Afghans -- most of them civilians -- died in the four-year fight for Kabul, and even more were maimed. In one particularly grisly attack, five women from the Hazara ethnic group were scalped. Their attackers were not Taliban; this was still two years before that radical Islamist militia took Kabul. The assailants were loyal instead to one of many warlords battling for control of the city: Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
It's interesting that, according to the Afghanistan Justice Project, Massoud was once Sayyaf's commander: The Afshar massacre and mass rape in Kabul by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf’s Ittihad-i Islami and Jamiat/Shura-i Nazar forces under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud in February 1993. This massacre and mass rape of mainly Hazara civilians took place in Afshar, Kabul. Some of those responsible for the killings and rapes that took place hold positions of power today.
From a 2004 New Yorker interview with Kathy Gannon: Is it simply a matter of having to deal with the victors, no matter how thuggish they may be? Not long ago, at the constitutional assembly of the loya jirga, a very courageous delegate made a similar point when she demanded that the “criminals” in the room be put on trial rather than be allowed to participate in the drafting of the constitution. And what followed was very significant. Rather than giving her time to speak, the chairman of the assembly threatened to throw her out. He then gave the floor to a man named Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, who in turn denounced her as a criminal. Between 1992 and 1996, Sayyaf, along with Ahmed Shah Massood’s men, viciously attacked parts of Kabul. They killed thousands of people. And that’s what this delegate was trying to say: “You stopped being war heroes when you began killing your own citizens.” Nobody was listening to her, not Hamid Karzai and not the West. But somebody has to start listening, because this is what so many ordinary Afghans believe.
Here's what she wrote about Sayyaf in 'Road Rage': Perhaps a hundred thousand people live in Ghazni, most of them ethnic Pashtuns and Hazaras, who are mainly Shiite Muslims. It is a deeply conservative place. Women are rarely seen in the bazaar, a sprawling and congested area where horse-drawn carts rattle down the street, car horns blare, and shops are small and packed to the rafters. The governor of Ghazni, Azadullah, is a follower of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, an extreme fundamentalist warlord who is now a power broker in Kabul. During the war with the Soviets, Sayyaf’s mujahideen included more “Afghan Arabs”—foreign fighters—than any other mujahideen group. In the early nineties, after the mujahideen took Kabul, Sayyaf controlled the Afghan Ministry of Interior. During this period, fighting among the warlords who made up the government in Kabul led to the destruction of the city and the deaths of fifty thousand of its citizens. Many of the same warlords are again in power, and Karzai has been unable to do much about this. They are in large part responsible for the instability of the country, and the subsequent resurgence of the Taliban.
In 2002, the New Yorker looked into the murder of Massoud: Sayyaf's university was called Dawa'a al-Jihad, which means Convert and Struggle, and it became known as the preëminent "school for terrorism." Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for masterminding the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, attended Dawa'a al-Jihad and fought with Sayyaf's mujahideen. Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who is in the same prison, serving a life sentence for seditious conspiracy to blow up various New York City landmarks (not including the World Trade Center, although he is suspected of having been involved in the first bombing of that, too), lectured in the camps around Peshawar in the mid-eighties. Osama bin Laden supported Sayyaf financially and led a brigade of Arab fighters who used Sayyaf's base in Afghanistan.
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